Astro Weekly #44

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Happy Sunday, Astronauts!

I hope you’ve all had an awesome weekend. It’s been another incredible week for Astro developers, with several important updates and announcements.

Here’s a recap of everything that’s been released this week that’s guaranteed to leave you feeling pretty content.

This week in Astro ☄️

Astro 4.14 released ⚡️

Astro 4.14 is out! This release introduces the experimental Content Layer API, offering a new level of flexibility for managing content in your Astro projects.

Experimental: Content Layer API 📑

Astro 4.14 introduces the experimental Content Layer API, an evolution of Content Collections that offers enhanced flexibility in content management. Now, you can fetch content from anywhere, including remote APIs, and integrate it seamlessly with existing collections.

This update also improves performance, particularly for large sites, by caching content locally and optimizing the handling of Markdown and MDX files.

Intellisense inside content files + more 💡

Astro 4.14 also features experimental Intellisense for content files, deprecates dynamic prerender values, and introduces a new injectTypes API for type integration. Additionally, there's support for metastrings in the Code component.

For more details, visit the full Astro 4.14 release notes.

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Fetching data with Content Layer API 🔌

If you’re interested in exploring Astro's new content layer API capabilities, Jamie Barton has created an excellent video introduction for you.

In this demonstration, Jamie shows how to use Astro's Content Layer to seamlessly fetch data from a remote API using GraphQL and Hygraph.

Using Stripe API with Astro Collections 💳

Jamie is so enthusiastic about the Astro Content Layer that he’s also published the first community-contributed loader on npm.

This loader allows you to fetch data from the Stripe API for use within Astro Collections. Although the project is still a work in progress, it currently supports endpoints for retrieving product data and prices.

What else I’ve been reading this week 🤓

Check out these great posts/videos from the Astro Community ↓

• 🔠 Next Font for Astro Sites

• 🛒 Live Code: Frontend Mentor Product List with Cart (with Astro)

• 🌍 Easily manage your multilingual Astro site in CloudCannon

If you have something awesome you’d like to share with the Astro community, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X

Astro on X 💫

What’s happening on Twitter X this week…

Direct link for web version:
https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/1824446394200989942

Astro Showcase 🤩

Check out these impressive projects built with Astro!

Would you like your work to be featured in our Astro Showcase? Get in touch at [email protected] or DM me on X

And breathe. That’s all for this week, folks.

If you’d like to be featured in next week’s newsletter, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X.

Enjoy exploring the Content Layer, Astronauts.

– Nathan 🧑‍🚀